Iron County register., 1887-12-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are 60. 600 women farmers
in Ireland.
"A new electrical system is to be in
troduced in the underground system Of
London. Large electrical engines will
be built.
The natives of Yucatan are the
only people near the equator, accord
ing to a traveller. who pay any atten-
tion to personal cleanliness.
There is a Shakespeare hotel in
Stratford-upon-Avon. and instead OF
numbers the names of plays are upon
the room doors, take the gentle
mans luggage up to Romeo and
Juliet" is common order
"A sign in front of store in the
city of Bari, on the Adriatic sea, in
Italy, recommends to the public the
following goods and services to be had
from the proprietor: ...Leeches. bread
sold in slices OF loaves, and tuition in
mathematics.
Seven boa-constrictors from Cuba
arrived at Berlin. A few days later
one of them laid four eggs and died in
the performance. On opening it ten
more eggs were found of the size of a
mans fist. Out of the four eggs four
snakes emerged about twenty inches
in length"
There are cities in Asia the date
of whose origin is not actually known.
but it is known that they are older
than Rome or any other city in
Europe. Jerusalem and Hebron in
Palestine and Damascus in Syria are
all many centuries older than Rome.
The little city of Weilderstadt in
Swabia, Germany, is the birthplace of
the great astronomer Kepler and the
reformer Brenz, well-known in Wur-
temberg history. La 1870 m monument
to K.pler was erect ed in the city. and
now they have restored to its former
condition the house where Brenz was
born and affixed a plate. celebrating
the occasion by meeting ut which
Rev. Won Geroth delivered the speech
of the day.
A lake at Kirknitz. in the Aus
train Alps, has for many years mYsti-
fled every one by driving up at one sea-
son of the year and filling with water
and overilowing at another During
the dry spell the. people raise very
good crops in lis basin. Recent eX-
plorations show in one part of the
basin an immense cave, which, when
the water has reached a certain height.
begins sucking it up till the basin is
empty. The cave leads to q long
series of underground lakes, all con-
nected with one another by con-
tinuous current. Chicago Times.
/ Large quantities of gunpowder
are at presentbeing sunk at the mouth
of the Thames by a government
steamer. This gunpowder has been
4accumulatlng for some years in the
magazines at Purfleet, having been re-
| turned from stores as deteriorated or
unreliable. The government has at
tempted to find market for this con-
demned powder, but no manufacturers
were willing to undertake the risk OF
/ the process of extracting the saltpeter.
1s-Industries. a, .sz
At the recent eclipse of the sun the
Chinese authorities, in accordance
with the usage of the empire. ordered
the Buddhist and Tavist priests to re.
| cite their incantations to rescue the
sun from. being devoured. 1t was al
| the time of the festivities over the EN-
peror's birthday, when all officials
were required to wear embroidered
robes, but it is also the law that dur
| ing an eclipse officials who participate
in the ceremonies must wear ordinary
garments until the sun is rescued. An
edict had to be got from the Emperor
to settle it. He ordered the officials
to ignore his birthday and attend to
the sun, so they all wore ordinary
robes. - q.